Biggest Computer Disasters?

[Trik'Stari]

When you delete any file, worst case, all you have to do is reinstall Windows and POOF it works.

They claimed they couldn't even get it to reinstall.

 

Just telling you what they told us, although I'm guessing they just wanted to take us for a ride and get us to buy a new HDD.

[minibois]

Well my mobo once died. Just flat out system shut off and wouldn't turn on..

At least this is an pre built and I had warranty It still took like 3 months to fix..

[RJSX1]

I bent my USB 3.0 Pins on my Motherboard

Same, it sucks.

[RJSX1]

I opened my old gaming rigs side panel and somehow the gpu fell out and killed the whole computer...

[_wky]

I've had a few "oops" moments:

I was hoovering my R4's front fan filter while the system was powered on, managed to draw one of the fans into the filter and that caused one of the blades to snap off. I powered down the system going "well that was stupid". So I got some super glue and glued the blade back on since it'd be bad to have an unbalanced fan. I held the blade by the edges until I felt that the glue was set enought to let go, except when I let go my thumb had a deep slice in it. It was like I had been holding a razor blade.

I ordered a new fan and that's now in there.

 

With my first time building my system I bent three pins in the socket, it took me a while with a mechanical pencil and a magnifying glass to bend them back. The system worked after that for a while.

 

I was watching some UFO videos on YouTube (I stumbled into that part of YouTube again) when halfway through my system went off. Nothing on the screen, no lights. I tried to restart the system but I was only greeted by the click of the PSU. It took me a day of testing to find that it was the motherboard/CPU. I sent the motherboard to be RMA'd while having nothing to test the CPU. The new motherboard arrived a couple weeks later and I got my chance to test the CPU. Nothing. FAFULAIWUHDLIAUWHUCK! So either the CPU was dead or was killed by the failing motherboard. I then had to order a new CPU and that's what's in my system now. Runs quite cool too.

[insayan]

A cryptolocker virus on one of the storage servers, thank god for the good ol' back up tapes.

[BraxtonPC]

delta fan to the hand... I had to get stitches (jk)

[Speedbird]

Title says it all, 

 

Mine would be trying to take off  a large CPU air cooler and having the whole CPU chip coming out of the socket (Yes the cpu was latched down)

That happened to me several times with my old Socket 478 board.

 

Anyway, there was this one time when I was working with a Dell Optiplex desktop. I was setting it up in my workbench, pugged in the PSU and noticed a small switch on the back. I assumed it was an on/off switch, so I flipped it. I heard a weird noise coming from the PSU and smelled burning electronics. It was then that I realised that the switch was not on/off, it was 115V/230V, which should not be changed while the PSU is on. Poor guy had to find a new proprietary PSU for it....

[Umair]

My biggest disaster was when my 8300 GS died on me.  Yeah, peanuts compared to many here.  Replaced it with a 8600 GT, and suddenly the loss looked more like an investment.

[HappyChubbs]

Building my first custom loop for water cooling.  I was installing fans on the radiator (3x120) that was sitting on the open side of the PC case (diagonally on the corner closest to the CPU).  After getting all the fans on I picked up the radiator and it fell out of my hands right back on to the motherboard.  Luckily nothing was installed on the MB and only a RAM clip was damaged.  I'm guessing one of the 3-pin connectors decided to anchor itself somewhere and give me a heart attack.

 

Needless to say, I will be much more careful with my next loop.

[My pet tree101]

Title says it all, 

 

Mine would be trying to take off  a large CPU air cooler and having the whole CPU chip coming out of the socket (Yes the cpu was latched down)

Try then reinserting that cpu (amd) with the heatsink still on back into the socket not realizing its going in the wrong way, force it for a bit. only to pull it out to see you've bent a few pins on the cpu.

 

Did this with my first pc, a 09 hp pavilion with a amd Athlon 2 back almost two years ago when I knew very little about computers  :lol: i did manage to bend them back and get it working eventually as the damage wasnt to bad.

[Dr_Orpington]

I once stuck my thumb in a Delta fan.

I bled. A LOT.

[babadoctor]

I was doing a raspberry pi weather expiriement outside and out of nowhere it started raining... i mean it started POURING

[orangecat]

When I was little I spilled a glass of milk on my old ass computer and it blew up.

[Alibaladin]

[DEDRICK]

y2k ready

[Mo5]

Dropped a hard drive (luckily it was ancient so no real harm), broke a RAM stick by putting it in the slot backwards (don't ask). That's all I can think of atm

[Skora]

Laptop catching fire after giving me bios beeps and errors at random intervals.

[asim1999]

When I was little I spilled a glass of milk on my old ass computer and it blew up.

KABOOM!

[asim1999]

Forgetting to plug in the CPU connectors, SATA connectors and CPU fan connectors. Was there for a day looking puzzled why my mobo had a POST error and my fans were running at full speed 

[asim1999]

probably the time when I got a virus that claimed to be part of the police force and locked me out of the computer. Spent a long long time working out how to get rid of that one.

Yeah, i hate it when you get owned by those pesky viruses 

[KE2012]

Yeah, i hate it when you get owned by those pesky viruses 

Especially when you have alot of work due for uni in the next few days and no back ups..... I lost a good few marks on one of my modules with thanks to that virus. 

[asim1999]

Especially when you have alot of work due for uni in the next few days and no back ups..... I lost a good few marks on one of my modules with thanks to that virus. 

Yeah, u should have blamed it on a virus

[KE2012]

Yeah, u should have blamed it on a virus

 

It would have been pointless, uni would have turned around and simply stated tough luck. I just had to take the hit on the chin and know to back up anything important for the future. 

[carguy86]

My cat decided to jump in my dell xps whilst it was om its side running benchmarks (har no side panel om som the cat got burnt and cut a little but he still lives xps was canibalized for gpu RAM and psu)